Word: soups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fail to receive the approval of the board, we trust this last one will be carefully considered before final action is taken. We propose, that on the first of every month the Stewart, the chief cook and the head waiter, assemble in the transept, place a cauldron of boiling soup in their midst, and then, joining hands, turn slowly and majestically around it, shouting the chorus in "Macbeth" beginning...
...Boston restaurants advertises 18 carrot soup. [Ex. That's nothing-we have soup of the first water at Memorial...
...winter still continued, with its heavy meats and solid desserts. Some change ought certainly to be made. Many men would willingly dispense with certain articles of fare if these were replaced by delicacies or relishes more peculiar to the season. For instance, if instead of the hot soup, the interminable boiled cod and two kinds of heavy, greasy meats, there were substituted partly some lighter confections and gastronomic concoctions that would tempt the palled appetites of the languid habitues of Memorial, a general tender of thanks would be unanimously offered. And, too, in regard to dessert, we are now having...
...marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets.' The school provides each boy with beer; wines are not allowed. There is a very simple tea at six, and supper of bread and cheese and, I believe, cold meat, if one wants it, before going...
Washington's one hundred and fiftieth birthday was appropriately observed at Harvard by singing "America" at morning chapel and by serving George Washington soup at lunch at Memorial. In addition to these recognitions of the day, the occasion was also celebrated in the afternoon by a largely attended exhibition of fire-escapes back of Thayer. The entertainment was carried out according to programme, beginning with the world-renowned loose rope performance on Rice's patent fire escape, and ending with a volunteer fire-ladder exhibition enlivened with numerous exciting divertissements du dog-fight. The raising of the ladder...